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Image via Wikipedia There’s nothing better than a practical bit of effective help for a health problem. Except when it’s affordable – that’s when the news is superb! When it comes to binge eating, there have been very few effective treatments to offer. And the ones that existed were often long-term and expensive. In […] This is the next in the series of first person posts about my medical relief work in Haiti. Day six: Because of a Haitian government directive, we now have to abandon our plans to continue to provide care in the massive sheet cities. From now on, we’ll work in a hospital, instead, and […] SO what do I know about this issue? As the physician and City public health administrator tasked with the initial implementation of Proposition 215 (legalizing medical marijuana) – I learned a lot. On the data side, I compiled every bit of published research about marijuana (positive and negative) from the previous thirty years, researching every […] We met cute. Classic Hollywood. America caught a glimpse of healthcare reform about a year ago – but only in passing, a little flirtatious hair-toss. Couldn’t really see anything, veiled and shadowy, but God did she look great. The bling-sparkle smile, the whole package, man, some people stampeded without another thought. There she was, the […] Prescription drug abuse has exploded in the last few years. Rush Limbaugh is perhaps the most famous person to become addicted to them, and commit crimes to obtain them. Corey Haim may (or may not) be the latest in a too-frequent series of celebrities-who-died-too-young from drugs that were obtained from a dealer with an M.D. […] We’ve entered a new arena of horror – where our Richter scale, for the first time, doesn’t seem to reach high enough, and adjectives are crumbling under the impact. “Devastation” or “catastrophe”? None of the usual descriptors feel powerful enough. So as punched-gut news of another urban area implosion reaches you today, this one from […] |
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